YouPassed

University Admission Management System - web application made on Java 8 with Spring and Hibernate frameworks.

Overview

The application designed to help an institution of higher education to manage student applications and admission process. There are two User Roles: Student and Administrator.

Student:

• chooses the profession - i.e. applies for a university major he/she wants to study;
• registers for the required exams;
• receives a notification about being admitted.

Administrator:

• inputs the marks for the exams that students registered to;
• confirms the admission of the best-ranking applicants for each major or all of them in a batch;
• also, Admin can add/remove majors and exams, edit data about them, change a user's role, etc.

All users can register, login, update their profiles.

Two localizations available: English and Ukrainian.

Technology Stack

• Java SE 8
• Spring Core, Boot, MVC, Security, Data
• MySQL database (and H2 for testing)
• Hibernate / JPA object-relational mapping instruments
• Thymeleaf template engine and Bootstrap CSS framework for the front-end
• Slf4j logging
• Maven

Prerequisites

• JDK 8 or higher
• MySQL RDBMS (I’m using MySQL Community Server 8.0.19)
• Maven build tool

Usage

1) Set up MySQL

• In the configuration file YouPassed/src/main/resources/application.properties change these lines according to your MySQL settings:

spring.datasource.url 
spring.datasource.username 
spring.datasource.password

• Run SQL scripts schema.sql and data.sql in YouPassed/db-setup/mysql/ to create a schema and generate initial data

2) Build the app with Maven

$ mvn clean package

3) Run the app

$ java -jar target/youpassed-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

4) Open it in a browser

http://localhost:8080/